ATLI EON Camera Instruction
Know About the Camera & App
① Power button
② External Flash Interface
③ USB-C Input (for power only)
④ Status LED
⑤ Focus Ring
⑥ Focus Mark (the green mark)
⑦Micro SD Card Slot
⑧ Built-in Microphone
⑨ Battery Cover Slot
⑩ Tripod Mount (size 1/4"-20)
Status LED indicates the camera status.
Light off: Power off
Orange: Warming up
Red: Charging
Green: Ready to connect/Fully Charged
Flashing green: Recording
Flashing red: Low power
We have been questioned many times, why manual focus? (Because it makes you feel like a pro) Manual focus allows you to have more control in hand, and stay focus at one point. It works great when doing macro shooting.
How to do manual focus?
Rotate the focus ring counter-clockwise steadily to set focus on object ranging between 7cm to 80cm away until the image is sharp.
What about the object beyond 80cm away?
Introducing the green mark. The green arrow mark on the focus ring is called the focus mark. The camera is set to focus on objects beyond 80cm away when the green mark is in the pre-set position (aligning with the status LED). You can feel the click-in when green mark is rotated to the pre-set position.
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Macro ModeRestore the camera to factory default settings thru either one of the two following procedures.
*Camera connected to the app
1. Connect your camera with aTLi Cam app and select the camera (if you have more than one ATLI EON camera) you want to restore to factory default.
2. Click on the settings icon at the bottom left corner and hit “About”.
3. Tap "Factory Reset" to restore factory settings.
*Camera unable to connect the app
1. Disconnect any external power source and remove the battery to make sure the camera is completely turned off.
2. Turn the Focus Ring counter-clockwise slowly until it cannot go any further.
3. Remove the micro SD card.
4. Connect the camera to an external power source.
5. The camera turns on automatically with the Status LED lights up.
6. Wait until the LED blinks green (approximately 30 seconds).
7. Point and hold the camera about 5 to 10 cm away to scan the reset QR code for
reset as shown in the end of this document.
When the Status LED blinks red, the scan is completed and the camera will be
restored to factory default. The camera is ready when the status LED turns green.
Point and hold the camera about 5 to 10 cm away to scan this QR code
① Refresh
② Camera List
③ Dashboard
④ Camera Serial Number
⑤ Camera Status
① More (QR code, Information, Alias)
② Add Camera
① WLAN
② Battery status
③ Shooting mode
④ HDR
⑤ Camera Orientation
⑥ Auto/Pre-set/Manual
⑦ Settings
⑧ Record button
⑨ Album
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Use the USB cable provided to connect the USB-C charging port of the camera with a 5V DC power source. When charging is in progress, the status LED turnsred. When the battery is fully charged, the status LED turns green. The status LED is off if the battery is fully charged and the camera is turned OFF.
Yes, you can. If the battery level is below the charging threshold, charging begins and the status LED turns red.
ATLI EON uses Li-Ion battery which has an estimated life of 2 to 3 years or 300 to 500 charge cycles. It is recommended to have the battery removed from the camera and stored separately at temperatures between 5 °C and 20 °C (41 °F and 68 °F) if the camera is not going to be used for a long period of time.
Battery life for time lapse shooting depends on the shooting interval, lighting condition, and whether the power saving mode is enabled.
*Without the power saving mode enabled, the estimated battery life for a fully charged new battery is about 7 hours.
*With power saving enabled, the battery life can be extended, and
the estimated battery is shown as below. 
The micro SD card that comes in the package is 16GB. ATLI EON supports up to a maximum 128GB micro SD card. Memory usage depends on the time lapse output setting. You can either select Video only or Video + Photo Sequence.
Photo Sequence takes up more memory since all frames taken will be stored separately in jpg format. For long duration time lapse shooting, it would be important for you to estimate how much memory is required and decide whether a larger capacity SD card is required or adjusting the shooting interval to accommodate the capacity of the SD card.
For time lapse video, the frame rate is preset to 25 fps and a typical frame size is around 50KB. The actual frame size varies from 20KB to 100KB depending on the target scene, camera settings, and lighting conditions. For estimation, you can use 50KB.
No you can't set up your own. The frame rate for time lapse videos is fixed and cannot be changed. You can only set up your own for normal videos and the maximum frame rate is 25 fps.
If you know what shooting interval you want, you can start to calculate the memory usage. Let's take 1s shooting interval as example. This gives 60 frames each minute and 3600 frames an hour. The estimated memory usage per hour is 180 MB = 3600 x 50KB. For a 128GB SD card, you will get ~29 days = 711 hours = 128GB/0.18GB/hr. In order to cover 3 months, you can change the shooting interval to at least 4s or use an SD card with 64 GB or bigger.
If you don’t need to shoot 24 hours a day continuously, you can use “Schedule” to define the time slot(s) you want to shoot. This will reduce the memory usage significantly.
Note: The maximum number of frames per time lapse video is 15,000 (Default 25fps and 10 minutes playback). If the limit is reached, frames from the existing task will then be saved to another video file. Rather saving a time lapse video in one big file, you can save it by “Per Time Slot” or “Per Day” using the “Schedule” feature. This offers an easy way to manage and view the recorded time lapse footages.
Photo Sequence output enables the camera to save all photos taken in a separate folder. This is required for creating a time slice photo. The photo size may vary from 0.5 to 2MB depending on the target scene, camera settings and lighting condition.
For memory usage estimation, we recommend using 1MB per photo. Let’s use the same example with shooting interval of 1s for 1 hr, the estimated memory usage for all photos taken is 3600 x 1MB = 3.6GB. This is approximately 20 times more than the corresponding time lapse video. If you want to do some post processing and time slicing, you will need to select and save the photo sequence.
A 30% safety margin is recommended on the above estimations as it may vary from the real-life memory usage.
Quick Start
Before you begin setup:
- Download the ATLI Cam app on your smart phone or tablet.
- Open the manual and find out your unique camera QR code.
- Install the battery to ATLI EON, and charge it with the USB-C cable.
- Press and hold the power button for 4-5 seconds to turn on the camera, and wait approximately 30 secs until the status LED turns green.
- Turn on ATLI Cam App, press Add Camera
- Scan the camera QR code on manual
- Press Join to allow the camera to join WLAN network
- After the screen is loaded, click into the screen to get into the camera dashboard.
Now you are all set, let's start your first time lapse with us.
1. Set up your camera steadily, and rotate the focus ring manually to set the focus ring.
Tip: Trigger the magnifying by pressing on the screen to partially magnify 2.5times on the image.
2. Once it's ready, press the Record button
3. Set up an interval for your video (read: how to choose the best interval)
Now the camera starts recording!
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App Features
Before setting up, you might have the question of what is WLAN and why I need it?
- Go to Settings > General > WLAN.
- Choose a Wi-Fi and click on it.
- Enter the password of the Wi-Fi, then Connect. The Wi-Fi name turns blue when it's connected successfully.
Note: A wi-fi icon will be shown next to the battery status when WLAN is on.
Now you can have internet access to your mobile/tablet device.
How to turn on Timestamp?
Settings > General > turn on Timestamp.
Watermark is turnded on by default.
How to remove the watermark?
Settings > General > turn off Watermark.
Can I use a custom watermark?
ATLI Cam app does not support custom watermarks yet.
Use gridlines for alignment in-frame composition.
How to turn on Grid?
Settings > Gerneral > turn on Grid
Power Saving helps extend the battery life for long-term time lapse recording. When Power Saving is on, the camera will go to sleep after 10 mins of no activity on the app. To wake the camera up, slightly touch the power button and wait approximately 10 seconds until the status LED turns green.
There are two options in Power saving modes.
Common (On):
When Common is on, camera will not go to sleep when connect to a power source (could be a power bank or a charger base).
Mandatory (On):
When Mandatory is on, camera will not be awake even when it's plugged-in.
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No you can't. To view on the app, please wake the camera up and reconnect it to the app.
Usually we recommend our customers to keep the camera plugged-in if possible. When camera is plugged-in, you can access the camera anytime without having to reconnect to the app again and again.
If you are going to do a long-term time lapse, like hours, or days, and have no power source around you, turning on the Power Saving is a good option to extend the battery life as long as possible.
Mandatory is designed for an extreme situation where to maximize the battery life. For example, if you want to do a long-term time lapse, and only have a power bank for backup. If you keep the power bank attached to the camera and turn Common on, the camera will consume power from the power bank constantly to keep the camera awake. If you turn Mandatory on, the camera will only consume power when needed.
Idle or not connected with the ATLI CAM App for more than 10 mins, it will turn off in order to save battery power. User can keep the camera from turning off by connecting an external power source to its USB-C charging port and NOT having the power saving mode set to ON (Mandatory).
Before using a power bank for external power supply, please make sure that the power bank will not turn off itself after a full charge. Some power bank will automatically shut off after detecting a full charge. In this case, the camera will not be recharged again.
Use Real-time Playback to preview an ongoing recording session.
- Connect the camera to the ATLI Cam app, and go to the dashboard.
- Tap on Live Preview under the info section.
Now you can view the video here, and download it instantly.
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Yes you can download the preview video at Live Preview without having to end the recording.
Yes you can. You can share the camera QR code with other ATLI Cam app users. After they scan the QR code on the ATLI Cam app, they can view and control the camera as you can.
Where is the camera QR code?
You can find the QR code at Camera List > More > QR code.
Go to Settings > Time-Lapse / Video > Output, set up your output settings.
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Output
① Camera Album
Go to Album > Camera, check and choose your videos / photos to download.
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Local Album is the default album on your phone, it shows the photos and videos which have been downloaded to local device.
Camera Album refers to the album which is stored in the memory card. Camera Album will not be shown when camera connection is off.
Sure thing! Go to Live Preview > load the video > download.
The downloaded video/photo will be saved to the local album on your phone.
Download the folder to your phone is not supported. If you want to download a big volume of photo sequences to a PC and re-edit them, please pull out the memory card and read it on the PC, or try our FTP service.
Go to Settings > Time-Lapse > Schedule, customize your schedule settings.
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Schedule
Combined: Only one video will be generated in the end.
Per time slot: Video generated by time slot.
Per day: Video generated by date.
Note: The maximum number of frames per time lapse video is 15,000 (Default
25fps and 10 minutes playback). If the limit is reached, frames from the existing
task will then be saved to another video file. Rather saving a time lapse video in
one big file, you can save it by “Per Time Slot” or “Per Day” using the “Schedule”
feature. This offers an easy way to manage and view the recorded time lapse
footages.
The 'Invalid time' warning indicates that your end time is ahead of or equal to start time.
Invalid:
22:00pm to 6:00am X
Valid:
22:00pm to 24:00pm
24:01pm to 6:00am
Changing settings on the fly does not support in Schedule. You may have to cancel the schedule to do the changes.
ATLI EON is the first camera in world that generalizes Time Slice photo automatically. With the ATLI Cam app, creating an amazing Time Slice takes only a few taps.
1. Go to Settings > Time-Lapse > Output, choose Video + Photo Sequence
2. Go back to dash board, start a time lapse recording.
3. End the record, go to Album, and find the photo sequence folder.
4. Click into the folder, go to Time Slice at the bottom right.
5. Choose the time range, number of slices, direction, and style, press Start to process.
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Remote access allows ATLI tech supports to access your camera over the air securely.
- Connect the camera to local Wi-Fi via WLAN
- Go to Settings > Advanced > Enable Remote Support
Note: Remote Support will be disabled automatically when the camera is off.
The control interface for the ATLI EON is based on HTTP protocol. This makes it possible to access the ATLI EON by using a web browser.
First, setup the ATLI’s Wi-Fi connection as described in ATLI EON Wi-Fi Configurations. For direct Wi-Fi connection, the preset ATLI EON’s IP address is 192.168.100.1. For connection via a local Wi-Fi, please refer to ATLI EON Wi-Fi Configurations for more details.
Once you know your ATLI EON’s IP address, you can then proceed to start a web browser. Enter the IP address in the address field and enter the web authentication code as prompted. You will then enter the ATLI EON camera web interface which is almost identical to what you see in the ATLI Cam App.
This application note introduces the concept of accessing an ATLI EON camera from internet as shown in the diagram below.
ATLI EON Wi-Fi Configurations and Access ATLI EON by using a web browser discuss how to access an ATLI EON camera by using the ATLI Cam
App or a web browser. However, both methods require the camera(s) and smart
device(s) to be in the same network. There are different workarounds and some will
require hardware or additional server support. In this application note, we are going
to discuss a simple method that does not require any additional cost. However, it will
require some networking knowledge in router configurations as stated below.
1. Public IP / DDNS
You can skip this step if you have a static public IP address connection. Majority of
internet connections are using dynamic public IP which will change time to time by
your internet service provider. In this case, you will have to configure the DDNS in your
router.
Most router suppliers are offering DDNS as a free service now. Please check with
your router user manual for more information.
2. Port Forward
After your ATLI EON camera connected to your local network, you will need to configure Port Forward in order to enable the router to forward external internet traffics to the camera. Before you proceed, you need to find the internal IP address assigned to the camera. You can view this under the WLAN status in the camera settings (ref to AN001 P.3-5). You can also find the camera’s internal IP address from the device(s) list of your router interface. Select Port Forward in your router setting and add a port forward rule. The internal IP is the IP assigned to the camera, the internal port number is 80, and the external port number is an unused port, says 8080. Click save and apply to enable the port forward setting. Now you should be able to access the camera interface remotely via a web browser. In the address field, enter http://<public ip/ddns address>:<external port number> to access the camera interface.
A built-in FTP server is now supported in the firmware T100-3.03 and above. This allows users to batch download image/video files in the camera’s album via a FTP client such as FileZilla (Window/Mac), FTP Manager (iOS), or AndFTP (Android).
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More Tips
Connect to a Power Adapter Depending on your project duration, it is highly recommended to shoot a long time-lapse with stable external power source, preferably a permanent power source. Thus, you won’t need to turn on the Power Saving mode and the camera can stay connected with your device(s) running the aTLi Cam App.
Connect to a Large Capacity Power Bank with Power Saving mode set to “On (Mandatory)” that enables the camera to go into power saving mode even with external power connected to maximize its shooting duration.
For Time Lapse VIDEO only, each time lapse frame is about 50KB (average) and 16GB can store 16GB/50KB/frame = 320,000 frames. For continuous shooting with an interval of 1 second per frame, the maximum shooting duration is
320,000 / (60x60) frames/hr = approx. 88 hrs.
Without using a larger capacity SD card, you can increase the shooting duration by increasing the shooting interval.
For Video + Photo Sequence, the memory consumption is going to increase significantly. Each photo estimates to consume 1MB and each video frame consumes 50KB. The maximum shooting duration for a 16GB SD card will be
16GB / (1MB + 0.05MB) / (60 x 60) = approx. 4 hrs.
